30 Years, Sesc_VideoBrasil Festival
Celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the Sesc_VideoBrasil Festival had place with a series of discussions about experimental practices and languages of the 1980s, during the last October 16th and 17th, at 8 pm, at SESC Pompeya in São Paulo, Brazil.
The first meeting, was titled "Everything can be a television program", presented by José Celso Martinez Corrêa, Tadeu Jungle, Walter Silveira, and Pedro Vieira. They debated on militant, subversive uses of video. In the second meeting, "Invading programming", Goulart de Andrade, Fernando Meirelles, Marcelo Tas, and Marcelo Machado discussed about the creation of the character Ernesto Varela and the renewal of Brazilian television during that era.
Besides these debates, the 30th anniversary will be celebrated with the Sesc_VideoBrasil Contemporary Art Festival, from November 6th, 2013 through February 2nd, 2014. Traditionally, VideoBrasil is held in parallel to the exhibition of the Panorama del Sur contest, which this year will gather artists of great international relevance from Latin America, the Caribbean region, Africa, the Middle East. Eastern Europe, South and South East Asia, and Oceania. The exhibition will also feature a large-scale video-installation, which will be the festival's historical axis, presenting changes in VideoBrasil and in the art scene in recent decades. The same space will feature historical performances, and visitors will have access to a video library wit more that 1,300 works exhibited in the festival, installations, books, and debates.
For more information, visit the 18th Sesc_VideoBrasil Festival web page:
www.videobrasil.org.br
www.sescsp.org.br
